West Hollywood To Host Virtual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Event: Life During The Holocaust

Press release from the City of West Hollywood:

April 6, 2021

The City of West Hollywood will host a virtual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day event, Life During the Holocaust on Thursday, April 8, 2021, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Yom HaShoah is an opportunity to remember victims of the Holocaust and to focus on preventing genocides and other human atrocities from ever happening again.

This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the City of West Hollywood’s Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration will be presented virtually on the Zoom platform. The commemoration will feature a presentation and discussion by Harriet Bennish, who will be featuring songs that were written in the ghettos of Eastern Europe during World War II from 1939 to 1945. During a time when millions of Jews were facing death, music found a way into their lives. They wrote poetry and composed music as they lived, fought, and died in the Jewish Ghettos across Europe.

RSVPs will be accepted in advance by sending an e-mail message to trodzinek@weho.org; a link to the Zoom meeting will be sent following request for registration.

For more information about the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration, please contact City of West Hollywood Russian Community Outreach Coordinator Tatiana Rodzinek at (323) 848-6826 or trodzinek@weho.org. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.

The City of West Hollywood has declared a local emergency in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Individuals are advised to stay at home as much as possible and limit close interactions to those in your household. When in public, community members should maintain your space with social (physical) distancing of at least six feet, and cover your face. Public Health officials recommend that everyone, even those who are vaccinated, continue to follow physical distancing and infection control directives and wear a clean face covering that securely covers both your nose and mouth when in in public.

This press release was produced by the City of West Hollywood. The views expressed here are the author’s own.